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From media hype to Twitter storm : the dynamics of self reinforcing processes…
The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But these explosive news waves, as well as - nowadays - the twitter storms, are object of scientific research, because they are an important phenomenon in the public area. Sometimes it is indeed ‘much ado about nothing’ but in many cases these media sto…
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- 9789048532100
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- 401p. : ill.
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- 070.4 FRO f
Big data in context : legal, social and technological insights
This book sheds new light on a selection of big data scenarios from an interdisciplinary perspective. It features legal, sociological and economic approaches to fundamental big data topics such as privacy, data quality and the ECJ’s Safe Harbor decision on the one hand, and practical applications such as smart cars, wearables and web tracking on the other. Addressing the interests of research…
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- 9783319624617
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- xii, 120p. : ill.
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- SpringerBriefs in Law
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- 343.099 BIG b
#Identity : hashtagging race, gender, sexuality, and nation
"Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates over race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. It has empowered minoritarian groups to organize protests, articulate often-underrepresented perspectives, and form community. It has also spread hashtags that have been used to bully and …
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- 9780472074150
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- xi, 365p. : ill.
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- 302.30285 HAS h
Owning the Olympics : narratives of the new China
"A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. Owning the Olympics tests the possibilities and limits of the concept of 'media events' by analyzing the mega-event of the information age: the Beijing Olympics. . . . A good read from cover to cover." —Guobin Yang, Associate Professor, Asian/Middle Eastern Cultures & Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia Universit…
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- 9780472070329
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- 416p. : ill.
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- 796.48 OWN o
Social Inequality, Childhood and the Media : A Longitudinal Study of the Medi…
This open access book presents a qualitative longitudinal panel-study on child and adolescent socialisation in socially disadvantaged families. The study traces how children and their parents make sense of media within the context of their everyday life over twelve years (from 2005 to 2017) and provides a unique perspective on the role of different socialisation contexts, drawing on rich data f…
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- 9783030026530
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- Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research
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- 303.32 PAU s
The media welfare state : Nordic media in the digital era
A dynamic examination of the media industry in the Nordic countries during the transition to today's digital environment
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- 9780472072156
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- vii, 156p. : ill.
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- 302.230948 MED m
Imagining the global : transnational media and popular culture beyond East an…
A focused multisited cultural analysis that reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global
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- 9780472072439
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- vi, 192p. : ill.
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- 302.23 DAR i
Tech giants, artificial intelligence, and the future of journalism
This book examines the impact of the "Big Five" technology companies – Apple, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft – on journalism and the media industries. It looks at the current role of algorithms and artificial intelligence in curating how we consume media and their increasing influence on the production of the news.Exploring the changes that the technology industry and autom…
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- 9781138499973
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- ix, 190p. : ill.
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- 302.23 WHI t
Digital sound studies
The digital turn has created new opportunities for scholars across disciplines to use sound in their scholarship. This volume’s contributors provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching, and dissemination. They show how digital sound studies has the potential to transform silent, text-centric cultures of communication in the humanities into rich, multisensory experiences…
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- 9780822371991
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- xii, 298p. : ill.
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- 001.30285 DIG d
The propaganda model today : filtering perception and awareness
"Thirty years after Chomsky and Herman elaborated the Propaganda Model this title aims to introduce a new generation of readers to it. It presents cutting-edge research demonstrating the model’s general validity as well as new attempts – in the light of digital media and 21st century politics – to critically update, expand, and refine it. International researchers thus analyse the continu…
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- 9781912656196
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- viii, 305p. : ill.
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- 303.375 PRO p
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